
Instead, the politicking and petty attacks on each other’s basketball intelligence got really heated, over multiple Zoom calls and text threads, when we tried to properly rank Shaq and Kobe and a bunch of point guards toward the bottom of our 30 Best NBA Players of All Time list. It’s guaranteed to get hardcore basketball fans in their feelings and, in our humble opinion, do a much better job than some of those other rankings floating around the interwebs that shall remain nameless.Īlmost up until deadline, we debated whether Shaquille O’Neal, inarguably one of the best big men in NBA history and a true disruptor on the court, deserved to be ranked higher than the late, great Kobe Bryant. Nor did we particularly labor over why Tim Duncan, for instance, deserved top 10 status over Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant (for now). When the Complex Sports crew started to put together this list, we didn’t waffle over whether LeBron deserved to be ranked higher than MJ. So, this is worth picking up if you never played Half-Life.The toughest debates may not be the obvious ones. Black Mesa also deviated from the original game by making subtle level design choices, giving a unique spin to it while not losing the Half-Life identity.įurthermore, the developers created one of the most hated sections of the original game, Zen, into something marvelous. And well, that resulted in Black Mesa.Īs mentioned above, Black Mesa is a source engine remake for the first Half-Life, adding every feature that the engine brings with itself. Crowbar Collective, a group of modders turned developers banded together to remake the first Half-Life.

Unfortunately, the original Half-Life never got a Source engine treatment by Valve.


While the second Half-Life and its episodes paved the way for features like realistic game physics, the first Half-Life gave us the gift called the GoldSRC engine. Half-Life by Valve changed gaming in a turbulent way.
